SEO and Sitemap Updates

we’re rolling out new improvements to help your store perform better in search engines like google these changes will make your website easier to find, cleaner to browse, and more search friendly here’s what’s coming soon 1\ improved multilingual seo support your sitemap will now include all language versions of each page, helping search engines index the right content based on user language and location, boosting international seo we’re also updating the url structure previously when multiple languages were enabled, even the default language (e g , english) had a slug in the url yourstore com/en/business cards/ now default language urls (e g , english) will stay clean yourstore com/business cards/ other languages will continue using the language slugs spanish yourstore com/es/business cards/ lithuanian yourstore com/lt/business cards/ this ensures better seo, cleaner default urls, and well structured multilingual links 2\ automatic sitemap generation a new system will automatically generate your sitemap using a scheduled job (called a cron) if google visits your sitemap and it hasn’t been created yet, the system will build it on the spot to set up the cron job, please reach out to the onprintshop technical team 3\ avoiding duplicate meta titles and descriptions to address the issue of duplicate meta titles and descriptions, especially on pages like upload design and browse design, we’ve implemented a system that assigns unique meta titles and descriptions to each of these pages if no custom metadata is provided, the system will automatically use the product’s meta title and description as a fallback this ensures each page has relevant seo content while avoiding duplication issues 4\ hiding non essential pages from google some pages, like forgot password , reset password , and design studio, aren’t useful for search engines these will be excluded from the sitemap marked with “noindex” so google skips them if needed, admins will still be able to update this setting from the admin panel > seo > metatag settings 5\ adding ‘no follow’ to some links certain links (like “customize” buttons or design templates) will have a “nofollow” tag adding the rel="nofollow" attribute to a hyperlink tells google not to follow or pass any ranking value through that link essentially, you're telling google, "i'm linking to this page, but i don't endorse it, and you shouldn't count this link as a vote for its authority " 6\ adding sitemap to robots txt we have added the sitemap url to the robots txt file to help search engines discover your sitemap more easily and improve overall crawl efficiency